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...comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, megacephalic, supersophisticated school tots show up their elders' ignorance. In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, a gawky, hapless buck private makes a hash of military life...
...Decent Respect. The reaction came swiftly, particularly in Britain. The left-wing New Statesman accused the U.S. of raining "secret gases" on civilians, declared: "The Americans, like Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, are treating the hapless inhabitants of Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions...
...much as four points, have won only one of their last six games. And out of the shambles have risen the Detroit Red Wings. Detroit has not won the N.H.L. championship since 1957; on Feb. 6, the Red Wings were mired in fourth place, trailed only by the hapless New York Rangers and Boston Bruins. Last week the Red Wings edged New York 6-5 and Montreal 3-2, clobbered Toronto 4-2, and took over undisputed possession of first place. A few nights later, the Wings finally had their winning string snapped-after seven straight-by the Montreal Canadiens...
Johnson's hapless press secretary, George Reedy, has also been a handy target. In the Washington Post, Columnist George Dixon went so far as to speculate that the "President has Reedy's office bugged and eavesdrops on all news briefings...
Pulsing Lifeline. Encouraged by such prospects, Captain John Hawkins sailed south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and spice. The Spanish authorities-whose custom it was to entertain a foreigner with "a stake thrust through his fundament and so out at his necke"-sharpened their preparations. In 1568, Hawkins and his flotilla of six vessels were accosted by "thirteene greate shippes." In the ensuing scuffle, Hawkins lost four...